Murder.
On Tuesday evening, the 15th inst., a man named Thomas Laughlin was found dead on the Tunnel Hill, four and a half miles from Johnstown. His scull [sp] was badly fractured, and the bone under the left eye also, giving evidence that the blows must have been inflicted by a hammer. A man named John Martin has been arrested on suspicion of having committed the deed, and since been brought to our Jail to await his trial. The murder is supposed to have been caused by the difficulties between the Irish laborers known as Corkonians and Fardowos. Laughlin belonged to the former, and Martin to the latter. |
